Yus, thanks for your response and like you I would not paint all Arabs a
racists, today.  However, the main stem of Faye's comments centers on where
the brother's grave is, and why is he not recognized like the other
followers (close) of the prophet?  Is it a coincidence that this applies to
only him among his close followers?  We have to tell our story and if I can
say that the crusaders were nothing but marauding beasts driven by white
supremacy, then I surely would not hesitate to call the Almoravids marauding
beasts driven by Arab supremacy.  And if no Arab wants to acknowledge Billal
and his contributions to Islam to the point of not identifying his grave,
then I would not hesitate to call their actions/inaction racist, today.  As
much as we want to talk about what should be, we also need to discuss what
is.  I wait for those more knowledgeable about the whereabouts of our
ancestors grave to feed us the knowledge.

Chi Jaama

Joe Sambou


>From: "Yusupha  C. Jow" <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: The Gambia and related-issues mailing list
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>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Excerpt from Islam's Black Slaves:The other Black Diaspora
>Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 23:28:24 EST
>
>In a message dated 3/21/2002 6:21:49 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
>[log in to unmask] writes:
>
>
> > I wish he never came from Arab race because they are devils and
> > at the same time the first human to enslave a black man before europeans
>
>Faye:
>With all due respect,  I think you are painting all Arabs with a borad
>brush
>by using the above statement.  It is one thing to condemn certain groups
>during a certain period in time, but to paint all Arabs as devils is a bit
>harsh.
>
>No pun intended.  I just thought it would be worthwhile to point this out.
>
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